Mattress-filling machine.



No. 656,833. v Patented Aug. 28, E900. F. J. BEAL- MATTRESS FILLING MACHINE.

(Application filed Dec. 15, 1898.)

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FRANK J. BEAL, OF ORFORD, NEWV HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR TO ELIZABETH L.

BEAL, OF SAME PLACE.

MATTRESS-FILLING MACHINE.

SPEGIEICATIQN formingpart of Letters Patent No. 656,833, dated August 28, 1900.

Application filed December 15,1898. Serial No. 699,354- (NO modeL) T aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK J. BEAL, of 0rford, in the county of Grafton and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and Improved Mattress-Fillin g Machine, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to mattress-filling machines, and it is shown and will hereinafter be described in a simple and convenient embodiment.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section through the improved machine. Fig. 2'is a front elevation of the machine, the ticking support or table being in vertical section, practically on the line 2 2 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3

is a partial rear elevation of the machine.

Fig. 4 is a vertical section, on an enlarged scale, through the ticking support or table. Fig. 5 is a front elevation, on an enlarged scale, of the ticking support or table. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of a modified form of the ticking support or table, and Fig. 7 is a diagrammatic view of a modified arrangement of the feed-belts.

The frame of the machine consists of front uprights 10, preferably two in number and placed near one another, rear uprights 11, and intermediate uprights 12, the uprights at each side being connected and braced near their lower ends by longitudinal beams 12.

In connection with the frame two side boards or pieces 13 and 13* are employed. The side board 13 is rigidly attached to the uprights of the frame; but the opposing side board 13 is adjustable to and from the fixed side board. Each sideboard is inclined downwardly and forwardly at its upper edge, so that the forward edge of said side board is quite narrow as compared with the rear edge. The inclin ed edges of the side boards are designated by the reference-numeral 14 in the drawings. The front uprights 10 and the intermediate uprights 12, adjacent to the front uprights, extend somewhat beyond the upper edges of the side boards, and the longer intermediate uprights 12 are connected by cross ployed to connect the upper portion of transversely-opposing front uprights 10. The long uprights at each side of the frame are connected by longitudinal beams 17. A shaft 18 is journaled in suitable bearings attached to the front uprights 10, the shaft 18 being below the lower edges of the side boards 13 and 13, while above the upper forward edges of the side boards 13 and 13 a second shaft 19 is journaled in bearin gs also'secured to the front uprights 10, the two shafts 18 and 19 being in vertical alinement, or practically so. Athird shaft 20 is journaled in suitable bearings attached to the rear uprights 11, the shaft 20.

being also below the lower edges of the side boards and in horizontal alinement with the front shaft 18,as shownin Fig. 1,while a fourth shaft 21 is journaled in bearings attached to the long intermediate uprights 12, the shaft 21 being above the upper edges of the side boards or pieces and quite close to the point Where the inclined surfaces 14 meet the straight upper surfaces of said side boards, as is also shown in Fig. 1. Sprocket-wheels 22 are secured upon the shaft 18 within the frame, one near each end, similar wheels 23 being secured to the shaft 19, while sprocketwheels-24= are secured in a similar manner to the rearshaft 20, and the upper rear shaft 21 is also provided with two sprocket-wheels 25. Endless chain belts 26 are carried by correbeams 15, and cross-bars 16 are likewise emsponding sprocket-wheels on the front and around corresponding sprocket-wheels 23 and 25 on the upper shafts 19 and 21, and the belts 28 have lags 29 attached to their outer faces. The belts 26 and 28 and their attached lags are at angles to one another, converging at the front end of the machine, as shown in Fi 1.

l lprights 30 and 31 are located at the righthand side of the frame outside of the front uprights 10, as shown in Fig. 2, and one end suitable source of power.

19 of the shaft 19 is journaled in the upper end of the upright 30, the outwardly-extending end 19 of the shaft having attached thereto a gear 32. A corresponding extension 18 is provided for the lower front shaft 18, the extension l8 being likewise journaled in the upright 30, and this shaft extension 18 carries a gear 33. The gear 32 meshes with a gear 34, and the gear 34 meshes with a gear 35, the latter gear meshing with the gear 32, as shown in Fig. 2. The gear 34 is secured upon a shaft 34, that is journaled in a front upright and adjacent uprights and 31, and the shaft 34 is provided with a driving-pulley 36, that is connected with any The gear 35 is sei, cured upon avshort shaft 35, that is journaled in an upright 10 and adjacent upright 30. The train of gearing above described is of such character that the two belts and the lags carried thereby will travel at the same rate of speed.

The side board 13 is adjustable through the medium of a rear shaft 37, journaled in suitable bearin gs attached to the rear uprights 11, the said shaft 37 being provided with a threaded surface 38, the side board where it receives the shaft 37 being provided with an aperture surrounded by an interiorly-threaded collar 39, adapted to engage with the threaded surface 38 of the shaft 37, as shown in Fig. 3. The forward end of the adjustable side board 13 is provided likewise with an aperture surrounded by an interiorly-threaded collar 40, and said interiorly-threaded collar is adapted to travel upon the threaded surface 41 of a shaft 42, jou rnaled in bearings attached to the front uprights 10, as shown in Fig. 2, and the shaft 42 at one of its ends is provided with a hand-wheel 43, by means of which it is rotated. At the opposite end of the adjusting-shaft 42 a sprocket-wheel 44 is 'secured,over which a chain belt 45 is passed, the said chain belt being carried to the rear over an idler 46 and over a sprocket-wheel 47, secured to one end of the rear adjustingshaft 37, and the said chain belt is carried from the sprocket-wheel 47 over a second idler 48, in horizontal alinement with the idler 46, back to the forward sprocket 44, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. Thus it will be observed that by turning the shaft 42 through the medium of the hand-wheel 43 a like motion will be imparted to the rear adjusting-shaft 37, and the side board 13 will be carried inward or outward according to the direction in which the adjusting-shafts are turned, so as to increase or decrease the width of the box'adapted to receive the filling in order that the filling may be properly directed to a mattress of greater or less width.

In connection with the body of the machine a ticking support or table A is provided, located at the front or delivery end of the machine. The body portion of the ticking-table consists of parallel side bars 49 and standards 50, attached to the sidebars, the standards being provided with eyes at their lower ends, and said eyes are adapted to receive a fixed shaft 51, secured to the floor or other support, upon which the body of the machine rest-s, as shown in Figs. 1 and 5. The standards 50 are adjustable on their supporting-shaft 51 and are held in adjusted position by means of set-screws 52 or their equivalents.

At the rear end of the side bars 49 of the body of the ticking support or table two rollers 53 and 54 are located, one above the other, the rollers being immediately in front of the point of delivery of the packing or filling for the mattress. These rollers 53 and 54 are telescopic, comprising two members, one adapted to slide in the other, and the exterior or outer member of the upper roller is at one side of the support ortable, while the corresponding portion of the lower roller is at the opposite side of the support or table, as is also shown in Fig. 5. Thus it will be observed that the ticking support or table can be adjusted to correspond to the adjustment of the box adapted to receive the filling, since the filling is carried into the ticking between the rollers 53 and 54, the ticking being turned inside out, as shown at B in Figs. 1 and 4, upon the body portion of the ticking support or table, and as the filling is fed by the lower conveying-belt and its lags and the upper compressing-belt and its lags tothe ticking support or table the filling ,in entering the ticking will cause the ticking to be restored to its normal position-nainely, with its outer surface facing outward-and as the ticking is crimped or folded upon the table A as it is filled,the filled portion of the ticking will pass out between the rollers 53 and 54, whichconstitute, therefore, convenient guides for securing the automatic reversal of the tick.

In Fig. 6 I have illustrated a modified form of ticking support or table, in which it will be observed that three body portions constructed as heretofore described are placed at angles to one another and are connected by disks 55, the said disks being provided with apertures 56. The disks 55 are supported by the standards 50, heretofore described, the standards being connected in the manner heretofore set forth to the fixed shaft 51; but in the modified form of the ticking support or table a strong latch 57 is attached to each of the standards 50 at their upper ends, and the latches are adapted to enter any of the aper tures 56 in the disks 55, the said apertures being so located that when the latches enter the apertures one of the body portions of the table will be in posit-ion to receive filling from the body of the machine. Then the ticking support or table is constructed as illustrated in Fig. 6, Work is expedited, since one of the body portions of the table may be presented to the body portion of the machine and the ticking carried thereby be filled, while the next body portion of the table will have a IIO filling one mattress may place a ticking properly upon the third body portion of the ticking support or table.

In Fig. 7 I have illustrated a slightly-different arrangement of the upper belts 28, in which a roller 60 is made to bear against the lower stretches of the belts,prod ucing straight sections 28 at the delivery end, of the machine, whereby the material will remain in a compressed condition a little longer before entering the tick than under the construction shown in Fig. 1.

It will be seen that by the useof the machine herein shown and described mattresses of any thickness from three to ten inches can be filled by adjusting the front end of the pressing device to the thickness of the mattress wanted and a device on the sides of the machine by which they conform to the adjustment, and the sides of the tick-support are adjustable to the thickness and width of the mattress to be made. An important feature of the machine is that by simply lengthening out the filling-box to the extent of the length of another mattress it has the capacity of two machines. Thus one machine can be made to have any desired capacity by constructing the filling-box of suitable length for the amount of work to be accomplished by it.

The invention is not limited to the construction previously specified, for the latter may be materially modified within the scope of the accompanying claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a mattress-filling machine, the combination, with a frame, a side board fixed to the said frame, adj usting-shafts located at the front and rear of the said frame, the adjusting-shafts being provided with threaded surfaces, a movable side board through which the adjusting-shafts pass, the movable side board being provided with interiorly-threaded surfaces adapted to engage with the threaded surfaces of the adjusting-shafts, both of the side boards being downwardly inclined at their upper edges in direction of the delivery end of the machine, and a belt connection between the adjusting-shafts, of endless belts located below the side boards, lags connecting the endless belts, compressing-belts located at an angle to and above the lower belts, the compressing-belts being connected also by lags, the inclination of the compressingbelts being the same as the inclination of the upper surfaces of the side boards, carriers for the upper and lower belts, a driving mechanism for the said carriers, an adjustable ticking support or table located at the delivery end of the machine, and means for securing the ticking support or' table in adjusted position, as described.

2. In a mattress-filling machine, a ticking support or table, consisting of side sections,

telescopic rollers carried by the side sections,

standards attached to the side sections of the ticking support'or table, a shaft upon which the standards are pivoted and upon which said standards are adapted to slide, and locking devices for the standards, as described.

3. A ticking support or table consisting of a series of connected side pieces placed at angles to one another and provided with a seards supporting the side bars, and telescopic rollers extending between the side bars at one end of the table and adapted to have the ticking passed between them when being filled the side bars serving. to be inclosed by theticking before the filling thereof.

5. A mattress-fi1ling machine, comprising a ticking support or table having side bars adjustable toward and from each other and adapted to be received within the ticking, to carry the ticking before the filling thereof, and telescopic rollers extending between the side bars at the feed end of the table and adapted to have the ticking passed between them when the ticking is being filled.

6. A mattress -filling machine, having a ticking support or table comprising'side bars, standards to which the side bars are attached and by. which they are supported, the standards and side bars being adjustable toward and from each other, and telescopic rollers extending between the side bars at the feed end of the table.

7. A mattress-filling machine, having a ticking support or table, comprising sidebars supported in approximate parallelism with each other, and rollers extending between the side bars at one end of the table and adapted to have the ticking passed between them when the ticking is being filled.

8. In a mattress-filling machine, a ticking support or table having side portions, and means extending between the side portions at one end of the table, between which. means the ticking is passed when being filled, the side portions serving to be received in the ticking, to carry the ticking before the filling thereof.

9. A mattress filling machine, having a frame, a carrier mechanism mounted to move the mattress-filling material to one end of the frame, and a ticking support or table mounted at said end of the frame, and comprising side portions with rollers extending between them, the side portions carrying the ticking IIO and the rollers serving to have the ticking passed between them as it is filled by the car rier mechanisms.

10. In mattress-filling devices, the combination of a ticking-support, and means for directing the filling toward said support, one end of the support receiving the closed end of the ticking when turned inside out and said end facing the means for directing the filling.

11. The combination of a ticking-support, and means for directing the filling to the support, the support having a passage therethrough and the said means directing the filling into said passage, the inner end of the support being j uxtaposed to the discharge end of the said means for directing the filling, and such inner end of the support being surrounded by a free space to permit the ticking to be slipped over said end, the support serving to hold the ticking with its closed end over the said inner end of the support so as to turn the ticking into the passage of the support and force the ticking through the same.

12. In a mattress-stuffing machine, the combination of means for feeding the filling material, and a ticking-support mounted at the discharge end of said means and capable of moving toward and from the same.

13. A mattress-filling machine, having a frame comprising uprights, and transverse braces extending between the same, a rigid side board at one side of the frame, an adjustable side board at the other side of the frame, a threaded shaft having connection with the adjustable side board to move the same, carrier mechanisms mounted on the frame and leading the mattress-filling to one end thereof, and a ticking support or table located at said end of the frame and movable toward and from the delivery end of the carrier mechanisms.

14. A mattress-filling machine, having a ticking-support capable of being inclosed by the ticking before the filling thereof, the sup port having a passage through the same which permits the ticking when being filled to turn into and pass through the passage of the support as the filling material is pressed into the ticking.

15. A mattress-filling machine comprising mattress-filling means, and mechanism for presenting a tick in an inside-out condition to the filling means and for securing the reversal of said tick dn ring the filling operation.

16. A mattress-filling machine, comprising mattress-filling means, and mechanism for presenting a tick in an inside-out condition and for automatically reversing the tick during the filling operation. Y

17. A mattress-filling machine, comprising mattress filling means, and a support for holding the tick in an inside-out condition, said support having means to automatically effect the reversal of the tick during the filling operation.

18. In a mattress-filling machine, mechanism for presenting a tick'in an inside-out condition to filling means, and for securing the reversal of said tick during the filling operation.

19. A mattress-filling machine, comprising a tick-support having side pieces and guides united to said side pieces, the support being adapted to receive a tick in an inside-out condition and the guides being arranged to receive between them the tick as the filling operation progresses, and means to present the filling material to the tick.

20. A tick-support comprising side pieces adapted to receive a tick in an inside-out condition, and two superposed guides cooperative with the side pieces and arranged to receive between them the tick as the filling operation progresses.

FRANK J. BEAL. Witnesses:

PAUL LANG, DAVID R. LANG. 

